College Station City Council Meeting – Tonight 1/22/14

Please read this note from Paul Reiger, County Chair of Brazos County GOP and information from Marla Mathews, Joint Association of:  http://wwwoilandnaturalgasintexas.com and consider attending tonight’s College Station City Council Meeting.

College Station City Council Meeting 1/22

Executive Committee,

Topic: Fracking

College Station City Council Meeting 

Thursday, January 22, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
City Hall – Council Chambers1101 Texas Avenue S., College Station, Texas
Sign up to speak: http://cstx.gov/index.aspx?recordid=232&page=3086
Agenda item when signing up online: 14-897

You must sign up in advance of the meeting online or in person at the City Secretary’s office.  Registration will be open in person during regular business hours and between 5:00-6:45 on Thursday, January 22^nd.

Sensible regulation and responsible production co-exist across Texas and can continue to co-exist in College Station to keep our community safe and our economy strong.

1,500-foot setback requirements amount to a de facto ban; people who oppose oil and gas development have said so publicly. Research confirms that 600-foot setbacks protect public health.

The current draft ordinance is appropriate to require to 600-feet for residences and 1,000-feet for schools, churches, hospitals.  The City should resist pressure to expand setbacks to 1,500-feet, creating a de facto ban.

Our community should base its decisions about oil and natural gas activity based on sound science, not discredited research.

The study cited about higher risk of cancer within a half mile of a well has been discredited and decommissioned because the authors used flawed methodology and inflated their findings dramatically.

Properly conducted research shows that natural gas activity doesn’t result in air exposures that would pose health concerns.

The former administrator of the EPA herself said she was not aware of any instance when fracking contaminated groundwater.

Oil and gas producing wells have been operating in the College Station area for decades with no harm to public health or the environment.

We are depending on our city leadership to embrace sensible regulations that are based on sound science and that encourage jobs and investment here.  Junk science has no place in College Station.

Best,

Marla Mathews